GAMES & SPORTS

GAMES & SPORTS- CRICKET MATCH FIXING!

In the context of the recent case about game fixing  I would like to pass on my views on the control over the games at the managerial level to check such malpractices if any in Indian Cricket teams.

The field games and sports were intended to create spirit of competition and sportsmanship amongst the youngsters and also for developing their character building process in the group games & sports. Now it seems that the entire system of games & sports and the management have become a source of manipulations for making  “Big Money”!. How could such sober activities of games fall into a den of people who deals with games & sports as a money making machinery and a commercial enterprise?

I feel that many of the people at the helm of affairs of the sports and games have not come to that position due to their performances in the field of sports. Such managers had their “ own axe to grind” in the management and control of international events. This tendency in making huge money has misled the youngsters who were attracted towards fabulous amount in the professional status of international cricket.

The recent incidents that followed on the issue of  “Cricket Fixing” are all due to this kind of diversion of sports & games towards a commercial set up leading to  such malpractices. Punishments like, life long detention from game of cricket is not the solution for correcting the youngsters if they have erred in the game. The issues forced on them directly or indirectly are the reasons for such actions from them. If such drastic steps are taken in similar cases in all the other departments,  many would have been jobless.

Even murderers are given benefit of doubt and released without serious punishment. Preconceived and preformed thoughts only lead to this kind of action from the organizers. In this particular case of the BCCI’s decision, the president himself is under observation for misdoings in the financial and administrative matters of Cricket.

I feel that the charges leveled against those youngsters must be withdrawn, giving them chance to correct themselves and allow them to play the game in future. The organizers should have taken a divine approach before imposing heavy punishments to the youngsters of promise, reported to have done malpractices in the conduct of the game of cricket.

Abraham Mangalath Philip